![]() He traveled widely through Europe and the Middle East with his family during the late 1860s and early 1870s, once living with a host family in Germany for five months. As a young boy, Roosevelt was tutored at home by private teachers. Thereafter, Roosevelt became a lifelong advocate of exercise and the "strenuous life." He always found time for physical exertions including hiking, riding horses, and swimming. As a teenager, he decided that he would "make his body," and he undertook a program of gymnastics and weight-lifting, which helped him develop a rugged physique. But he was always a sickly child afflicted with asthma. "Teedie" grew up surrounded by the love of his parents and siblings. His mother, Martha "Mittie" Roosevelt, was a Southerner, raised on a plantation in Georgia. His father, Theodore, Sr., was a well-to-do businessman and philanthropist. ![]() Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, and grew up in New York City, the second of four children. ![]()
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